Yes, that's correct. To use the RORACLE package in R, you need to have the Oracle client installed also. But it seems that's also the case with ODBC according to the first reply to this post.
I totally understand this is low on the priority of the things that could be implemented since there is already a path for database access. But since Julia is targeted at high performance analysis, the Oracle benchmarks show that the built in OCI drives are much faster than the ODBC implementations (depending on the use case) so something to consider for the future. On Monday, June 27, 2016 at 7:49:49 PM UTC-7, cdm wrote: > > > extending the wrapper theme ... > > do survey: > http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/features/instant-client/index-097480.html > > > > On Monday, June 27, 2016 at 10:30:14 AM UTC-7, Jacob Quinn wrote: >> >> It's probably the case that Oracle has built the drivers themselves, so a >> programming language would just need a wrapper library around the direct >> driver (similar things exist for MySQL, Postgres, etc.). >> >> But what Stefan said still applies, someone would have to take the >> initiative to build the wrapper library around the Oracle driver and >> provide a Julia package. Probably not a terribly hard project (basically >> lots of ccalls and some julia-level interface design), but where ODBC >> provides a connection more-or-less out of the box, it cuts down a little on >> the pressing need. >> >> -Jacob >> >
